Flavus or blavus: a difficulty in understanding early descriptions of minerals
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2018
Extract
While studying some of the early works on minerals I came across an obvious difficulty: several minerals, amongst which lapis-lazuli is the most startling, are described in Latin as flavus, yellow or flaxen-coloured, not blue. This error has been copied into a book in English. The solution is less obvious than the difficulty, and it may therefore be worth while to put it on record for other workers on similar lines.
- Type
- Research Article
- Information
- Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 28 , Issue 197 , June 1947 , pp. 104 - 107
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- Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1947
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